Portable partition



May 13, 1930. F 'B WHEAT' 1,758,489

PORTABLE PARTITION Filed Dad. 10, 1928 2 heets-Sheet l May 13, 1930.

F. B. WHEAT PORTABLE PARTITION 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Dec. 10, 1928 as az m Patented May 13, 1930 FRANK B. WHEAT, F Los nneE Es cA r oBmn PORTABLE;

.BARTITION Application filed December 103928 Seria1-'1\To.-- 324,960.

This invention relates to improvements in portable or sectional partitions and particularly to devices for rigidly securing such partitions against the walls, ceiling or other surfaces in the room in I which they are erected.

Primarilythe invention contemplates a Wedging the partition against the ceiling m and walls or the like without liability of damaging or marring the appearance of the plaster. Morespecifically, the object is to provide a wedge member so associated with portions of the partition that one or more of said members may be installed or used at any number; of desired points for the purpose of overcoming or compensating for any unevenness that may occur in the plaster surfaces against which the partition is to be erected.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel details of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, all as Will hereinafter be more fully described and the novel features thereof particularly pointed out in the appended claims. 7

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevational view of a portion of a partition;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a similar View on the line 8-3 of Fig. 1; b Fig. 4 is a detail View of the wedge mem- Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line 55 of Fig. 1. p The partition, proper, which is of the portable type, may be of any desired deslgn, bemg illustrated in the present instance as compris ing upper glass panels 10 and lower opaque panels 11 secured between ra1ls'12and pllasters 13, 14. Between the molding or mold member 35 on upper rail 12 and the top sash 15 of the partition there are panels 16. s

For rigidly securing the partition 1n place in the room, the pilaster 14 is provided wlth a longitudinally extending groove 17 preferably formedin a strip 18 secured to sa1d wedged against the wall surface. The nut' nection with the side wall.

-pilaster and yinterposed betweensaidstrip and the wallsurf-ace 19: is a. second strip 20which has a similar; groove 21 opposed to the groove :7 -Eng gingn l d' Oppos d grooves. are t the w dging m mb s for (sec i g theparti; tion in place. Thesewedging memberscon sist of; a threaded-bolt .hayingga headi23 novel arrangement for securely clamping or angular in cross-section seated;in onevof said grooves, preferably in= strip 18,and-a sleeve 24: telescoping bolt -and,;-engagi;ng {in igroove 26. :,\,ML:I1S: arepr v dedwforrmoving the sleeve-24:longitudinally of: the bolt, as, by

, .havingit. threaded thereon, {but :preferably 7 said. sleeve is formed .with,=.:a sm ooth Zinterior and seatsagairist a:n 1t 2 .:threaded on i said bolt. ,The walls'of groove-j17 hold bolt22 against 1 rotation and asawillgbe apparent, by

adjustingjthe nut.- Onathe bolt, said sleeve can be forced against strip 20 and the latter 0 is spaced from both of the strips 18, 20 so that it may be readily manipulated and after the wedge has been adjusted, the space between said strips is closed by finishing or scribing strips 26. By having the heads of the bolt and the sleeve seating in the continuous grooves any desired number of wedge members may be used at any point desired or necessary to clamp the partition in place and force strip 20 close against the wall surface regardless of any unevenness therein. By us ing the continuous groove for said wedge members the partition is completed by the manufacturer and nothing has to be done when it is installed in order to utilize the wedges at points where there are inequalities in the wall surface.

For, securing the partition at the top, a strip 30 having a"gr0ove 31 therein abuts against the ceiling 34 and an opposedgroove 32 is provided in the top sash 15. The bolts '22 with the nuts 25 and sleeves 24 assembled thereon are placed in these opposed grooves in the same manner as just described in con- The space be tween said sash and strip 30 is closed byfin ishing or scribingstrips 33 after the wedges have been adjusted. By the use of strips 20,v 30 along the wall and ceiling the finish of r j the surface of thewall or ceiling of the room tition in any way whatever.

the plaster is not marred in anyway While,

at the same time, any inequalities in those surfaces may be readily compensated for without altering the various elements of the par- What I claim is: 1.]In a portable partition embodying a V pilaster or top sash havin a groove extending along the edge thereo a strip abutting the surface of the wall or ceiling of the room in which the partition is erected, said strip Q having a groove therein opposed to the groove 1n the pilaster or sash, a bolt having the head thereof seated in one of said grooves, the side walls ofwhich prevent rotation of said bolt,

asleeve loose on said bolt engaging in the 7 other groove, and means for moving sald sleeve longitudinally of said bolt.

2.111 a portable partition embodying the i pilaster 'or top sash havinga groove extending along the edge thereof, a strip abutting in which the partition is erected, saidstrip having a groove thereinopposed to the groove in thepil'aster or sash, a bolt having the head thereof seated in one ofsaid grooves, the side walls of which prevent rotation of said bolt, a sleeve loose on said bolt and engaging in the other groove, and a nut threaded on said bolt engagingsaid sleeve wherebymovement of the sleeve longitudinally of the bolt may beelfectedbyrotation of said nut on the'bolt.

FRANK WHEAT. 

